FEBRUARY 2018
HARVEST TIME OZARKS FOOD HARVEST – THE FOOD BANK
NEWSLETTER FROM THE O’REILLY CENTER FOR HUNGER RELIEF
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FULLY FUNDED
Supporters step up to meet Mabee Challenge Grant Ozarks Food Harvest donors helped us meet a $700,000 J.E. & L.E. Mabee Foundation Challenge Grant. These funds will go toward building our 56,000-foot expansion. The walls are already going up, and a grand opening of the new warehouse space will take place this summer. That will mean more room to accept, process and store food donations, more fresh food in our dedicated produce cooler, more freezer space, more space for volunteer projects … and, most importantly, more hungry Ozarks families fed. For nearly 35 years, Ozarks Food Harvest
“I’ve been having a rough week. My kids are going to their dad’s, but their dad does not have any money for groceries. I was worried about how I was going to afford to get groceries to send them with.” -Michelle, mother of two has had a mission of Transforming Hunger into Hope. The Food Bank provides food and supplies to 270 nonprofit hunger-relief organizations across southwest Missouri. Currently, Ozarks Food Harvest provides 16.8 million meals to more than 261,000 unduplicated individuals annually. But that leaves a meal gap of 15 million more meals needed by food insecure individuals in our 28 counties to improve food security. We will take a giant step toward closing that gap when we no longer have to turn away a million pounds of food a year because of lack of space, leaving children, families and seniors without needed food. A lead gift from the O'Reilly family, all of our
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generous donors and the Mabee Foundation Challenge Grant made it possible to meet the $4.6 million goal to build, furnish and operate the new expansion. Thanks to our four star rating from Charity Navigator, donors know that the money they give is being used to support our mission. That mission is to reach all of the children, families and seniors who face the reality of not knowing where or when their next meal is coming. Michelle and her children are one of those families. Michelle is a single mother of two teenagers. She is disabled and recently broke her hip, making it even more difficult to get around. “I’ve been having a rough week,” she told us. “My kids are going to their dad’s, but their dad does not have any money for groceries. I was worried about how I was going to afford to get groceries to send them with.” Michelle was able to get assistance from Ozarks Food Harvest. “[Now I have] some groceries to send with my kids when they visit their dad. It takes a big stress off,” she said. Michelle has also been struggling with high utility bills, but she is still very thankful for the support from Ozarks Food Harvest. “It came on a day that I was stressing out
and needed it,” she said. “It was so great to get that. It took the weight off my shoulders. … We really appreciate it.” Thanks to all our Capital Campaign donors, when our new expansion is completed, we will have the ability to help more families like Michelle’s across our service area. We will be another step closer to closing the meal gap and Transforming Hunger into Hope.
CANS FOR COFFEE RESULTS
A BOY SCOUT COLLECTS FOOD DURING LAST YEAR'S 28TH ANNUAL SCOUTING FOR FOOD DRIVE.
SCOUTING FOR FOOD BEGINS NEXT MONTH 29th annual food drive provides good training for Boy Scouts Area Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts are true Hunger Heroes. For the past 29 years, the Scouts have been collecting food during their Scouting for Food drive, and this year they will do it again. Scouts and their leaders go door to door in local neighborhoods to accept food donations throughout the month of March, with a wrap-up event on March 31 at local retail stores. The food is delivered to Ozarks Food Harvest or directly to partner food pantries in smaller communities. Last year, the Scouts collected more than 38,000 pounds of food — 32,000 meals in all — during the drive. Kurtis Grothoff, an Ozark Trails Council district executive who coordinated last year’s Scouting for Food, said the collection “crushed” previous records. “We’re so proud of the area Boy Scouts and their record collections during this year’s Scouting for Food,” said Bart Brown, president and CEO of Ozarks Food Harvest. “Scouting has a long-standing mission of giving back to the community, and we look forward to this project each year because it creates an immediate impact in the lives of
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BOY SCOUTS ACROSS THE OZARKS WILL COLLECT FOOD AND FUNDS TO BENEFIT OZARKS FOOD HARVEST.
our neighbors here at home,” said John Feick, CEO of the Ozark Trails Council. The Ozark Trails Council serves 7,500 youth members across southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas. It is the mission of the Boy Scouts of America to prepare young people to make moral and ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and the Scout Law. The Scouting for Food drive is part of that mission by providing a great way to engage young people in Ozarks Food Harvest’s mission of Transforming Hunger into Hope and encourage them to think of others.
For the past 10 years, McDonald's restaurants across southwest Missouri have partnered with Ozarks Food Harvest in its fight to end hunger across the Ozarks through McDonald’s Cans for Coffee program. This year, 25,280 pounds of food was donated by customers at more than 65 local McDonald’s restaurants during the monthlong event in November. Customers donated at least one nonperishable food item in exchange for a free small McCafé beverage. All those lattes, hot chocolates, cappuccinos, macchiatos and cups of coffee have translated into extra food for Ozarks Food Harvest to distribute across its network of 270 food pantries and hunger-relief programs in 28 counties. The partnership also resulted in a truckload of Tyson chicken donated to The Food Bank, to help provide much-needed protein to the families who access help through those pantries and programs. Since the Cans for Coffee program started in 2008, McDonald’s of the Ozarks has collected more than 257,000 pounds of food — 230,000 meals — from community members. This long-standing partnership is very important to Ozarks Food Harvest. It not only brings in needed donations, it builds awareness of the growing issues of hunger in our area. “This promotion with local McDonald’s stores has provided hundreds of thousands of much-needed meals over the past ten years,” said Denise Gibson, development and communication director at Ozarks Food Harvest. “We’re grateful for the store operators and customers who participate each year to help their neighbors in need.”
THANKS TO DONORS AND MCDONALD'S OF THE OZARKS, 230,000 MEALS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO THOSE IN NEED.
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POVERTY STILL A RED FLAG, EXPANSION WILL HELP Greetings from the O’Reilly Center for Hunger Relief! This year will bring some amazing possibilities to Ozarks Food Harvest. That's because our generous supporters have stepped up to meet the challenge to expand our facility and our reach to end hunger in the Ozarks. More than two years ago, The Food Bank began its capital campaign to raise $4.6 million for a 56,000-square-foot expansion to allow room to accept more food donations, especially fresh produce, in order to reach more people in need. Being awarded the Mabee Challenge Grant was a giant step toward success in our Capital Campaign, and our faithful supporters
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have made that success a reality. The Mabee Challenge Grant allowed us to raise the majority of funds needed for the expansion. We've already broken ground and begun construction, which is expected to open this summer. But the real success will be when we are able to feed more families in need in our 28-county service area. There is no question that the need has outpaced our ability to meet it, but this expansion will change that. When the Community Report Card, a look at the challenges and successes in our area, was released last year, poverty was again one of the Red Flags, a continuing need that is keeping our community from succeeding. That conclusion was further supported by a recent Feeding America study, Map the Meal Gap, which found the food insecurity rate in our service area is at 15.3 percent. That is one in seven adults and one in five children who face uncertainty finding their next meal. We have experienced this reality up close at Ozarks Food Harvest. Since the Great Recession, we have seen the number of clients seeking food assistance grow from 53,000 individuals in 2007 to 155,000 in 2009, and currently 261,000 annually. Many of those people are forced to purchase inexpensive, unhealthy food to make ends meet, and must still depend on local food pantries to supplement their pantries at home. They would love to feed their families fresh fruits and vegetables,
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CHARLIE'S CORNER protein and dairy products, but many simply can't afford it. Joshua and his sister, Lorali, are examples of the growing need in the Ozarks. Joshua, age 8, and Lorali, age 7, live with their mom and dad in a hotel room in Springfield as the family struggles to get back on its economic feet. The children both participate in the Weekend Backpack Program, which provides kids with six meals to take home each weekend. “It feels good to take food home from school, because it helps us,” says Joshua. “Sometimes we have food and sometimes we don’t.” We know that our Weekend Backpack Program and the support for local food pantries are making life a little easier for Joshua and Lorali’s family and others. Now, this expansion will mean that they will not only be assured that there will be food on the table, but more of it will be fresh, healthy food.
UPCOMING EVENTS ARVEST 1 MILLION MEALS BEGINS
VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION MONTH
Arvest Bank is continuing its tradition of helping its hungry neighbors in southwest Missouri through 1 Million Meals. The eighth annual campaign will begin April 2 and runs through June 2. Those who are interested in participating can donate food or funds at Arvest branches in Springfield and Nixa. Last year these branches provided more than 12,100 meals to support Ozarks Food Harvest's feeding programs in southwest Missouri.
April is National Volunteer Appreciation Month! Special thanks to the thousands of volunteers who gave their time to help feed their neighbors in 2017. More than 30,000 hours of service were donated to provide millions of meals to people struggling with hunger across the Ozarks!
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Thanks to our generous Capital Campaign donors, Ozarks Food Harvest keeps on growing. These Hunger Heroes helped us raise the money for a 56,000-square-foot expansion that will allow us to accept more donations and respond to more need. We have been growing steadily since we began, especially since we moved into our current location in 2009. That year, we were distributing 7 million pounds of food. In 2017, we distributed a record-breaking 17 million pounds — or 15 million meals — to hungry families right here in the Ozarks. Our current facility has allowed us to play a key role in helping people who experienced financial strain in the 2008 Great Recession, many of whom may have never faced food insecurity and were unsure where to seek
assistance. And, in 2011, our expanded facility also allowed us to play a key role in providing food when the Joplin tornado hit. We could immediately engage our partner agencies to distribute and prepare meals for people hit by the devastation. The expansion will position us to step up when future disasters strike. But, most importantly, having adequate space and appropriate storage will allow us to respond to the daily disaster of hunger. And that goes on year-round. It’s a daily disaster for nearly a quarter million people in our service area. THE BUILDING EXPANSION WILL ALLOW US TO HELP MORE FAMILIES. What we’ve been able to do is wife, Aberea, purchase fresh produce only to not only meet the needs for some discover that some of it is inedible because of very specific tragedies of increased need, but mold and rot. we’ve been able to really narrow the hunger “We value the natural food,” Chris says. “It is gap in terms of how many people are going disappointing when we do not have access without fresh, healthy food. It’s about using every resource that we have to them ... We are just trying to get by. There are not enough job resources in West Plains. to meet this daily need that’s not going away. There are a lot of minimum wage jobs, which Chris is a 23-year-old in West Plains with a do not provide enough for our family to live family to feed. His experience is an example on.” of the daily disaster of hunger and of how One of the reasons we need the additional important it is that we have fresh, healthy space provided by our expansion is that so food available. many folks, like Chris, work but rely on food “We have two young children,” Chris said. pantries to meet their budget. “They love the fresh fruits and veggies. Thanks to all our supporters, we can meet Produce is hard to find in West Plains.” the need! He explained that too often he and his
FOUNDATIONS GIVE HOPE TO KIDS
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Our new expansion at Ozarks Food Harvest will allow us to do some very big things, but sometimes it is something small that makes a big difference. When a tiny 6-year-old receives a warm hoodie to stay cozy for Christmas, that can be a big thing, so when the Musgrave and Slusher Foundations helped Santa arrive at Bradleyville School with his bag of gifts – hoodies and groceries for every student in Bradleyville, Mark Twain, Plainview, Taneyville and Thornfield schools in Taney County – he got a big reception! The Slusher Foundation and the Musgrave Foundation have been longtime supporters of our Weekend Backpack Program for students in need in the Ozarks, providing nearly 44,000 backpacks, or 262,000 meals, to children in need to take home over the weekends. This program can mean the difference between hunger and eating three healthy meals a day. The generosity of the Musgrave and Slusher
Foundations is tied to their deep concern for the wellbeing of children. This long-standing partnership with Ozarks Food Harvest has also led to creative ways to help children in the Ozarks. The support of these foundations and all of our donors make it possible for us to make a big difference in the lives of neighbors. Thank you all for making that happen.
CHILDREN RECEIVED WARM HOODIES THANKS TO THE SLUSHER AND MUSGRAVE FOUNDATIONS.
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OFH BOARD OF DIRECTORS Tamara deWild O’Reilly Auto Parts–President Dr. Meera Scarrow Mercy Hospital-Springfield–President Elect TommyWohlgemuth SGC™ Foodservice–Treasurer Tim Bellanti Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc.–Secretary Mike Pinkston Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.–Past President Dr. John Buckner Ferrell Duncan Clinic Brad Crain Arvest Bank of Springfield Jim Guthrie Prime Inc. Gary Naab General Mills, Retired Jill Reynolds Commerce Trust Company Kenny Ross Ross Construction Group Krystal Russell Spectrum Accounting and Payroll Vault Todd Sherman Kraft Heinz JamesWilson NewStream Enterprises, a subsidiary of SRC Holdings
OFH STAFF Bart Brown, President/CEO ADMINISTRATION Cindy Snow, Director of Administration Cindy Boggs, Office Manager Terry Keller, Administrative Services Coordinator Lauren Zachary, Receptionist DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATION Denise Gibson, Director of Development & Communication Emily Hammock, Development Assistant Cassie Hanson, Development & Grants Manager Tessa Cooper, Communication Assistant Coordinator Jennifer Sickinger, Senior Coordinator COMMUNITY RESOURCES Gordon Day, Director of Community Resources Dan Bohannon, Retail Store Donation Coordinator Ben Collins, Volunteer Coach Julie Daoust, Retail Store Donation Specialist Brenda Hesebeck, Volunteer Coach Rob Medlen, Full Circle Gardens Assistant Jeremy Moore, Volunteer Coach Alexa Poindexter, Full Circle Gardens Coordinator Daniel Snider, Lead Volunteer Coach JoleneThompson, Volunteer Engagement Manager
SPECIAL THANKS TO THESE FRIENDS OF THE FOOD BANK TURKEY TROT COLLECTS 10K POUNDS OF FOOD
SMART CHICKEN HAS BEEN AN OZARKS FOOD HARVEST SUPPORTER SINCE 2002.
SMART CHICKEN MAKES ANNUAL DONATION Ozarks Food Harvest received a 7,672-pound donation of Smart Chicken last month, thanks to Tecumseh Farms. This is the 15th year for the donation, which allows food pantries in the region to serve protein-rich chicken to families in need. Smart Chicken’s Feed the Hungry campaign donates one pound of poultry for every 10 pounds of product purchased in November at southwest Missouri grocers.
J. R. ALBERT RENEWS THREE YEAR PLEDGE Heartfelt thanks to the J.R. Albert Foundation for renewing its three-year pledge to donate $75,000 to provide 300,000 healthy meals for hungry children, families and seniors in southwest Missouri! The foundation’s first gift of $25,000 is muchneeded to finish 2017 as a record-breaking year for feeding our hungry neighbors.
Due to growth and limited space in the newsletter, all warehouse and transportation associates on the Operations team are now listed online at ozarksfoodharvest.org.
OFH'S DENISE GIBSON AND CASSIE HANSON ACCEPT THE DONATION FROM O'REILLY AUTO PARTS.
O’REILLY CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC BENEFITS OFH O’Reilly Auto Parts recently hosted a golf tournament and raised $10,000 for the Weekend Backpack Program! Each year, O’Reilly Auto Parts hosts the Charity Golf Classic to raise money for organizations that help individuals and families struggling with hunger, homelessness, health, domestic violence and illiteracy. Heartfelt thanks to O’Reilly Auto Parts for being supporters since 2000.
SRC COMMUNITY RELATIONS HOSTS HOLIDAY FUNDRAISER
MEMBER SERVICES Mary Zumwalt, Director of Programs & Member Services Jordan Browning, Comm. Partnerships & Advocacy Coord. Casey Gunn, Retail Compliance Specialist Kimberly Hansen, CSFP/Senior Box Coordinator Abbey Hedges, Backpack Program Coordinator Terra Lamb, Agency Outreach Coordinator JaneTerry, Creative Information Specialist MelanieToler, Member Services Assistant ErinThomason, Nutrition Programs Coordinator OPERATIONS ADMINSTRATION Scott Boggs, Director of Operations Teresa Dixon, Warehouse Manager Mike Doubledee, Inventory Manager Steven Henry, Operations Administration Mike Hesebeck, Transportation Supervisor Eddie Hicks, Operations/Compliance Coordinator Steve Roberts, Transportation Manager
For the past 23 years, hundreds of people in southwest Missouri have come together on Thanksgiving Day for Turkey Trot. This year’s Turkey Trot food drive collected 10,524 pounds of food. Since 2001 this event has provided more than 115,000 meals for our community. Thanks to everyone who continues to make this a success.
NEIGHBOR'S MILL HOSTED A HOLIDAY FUNDRAISER.
NEIGHBOR'S MILL DONATES $2K Special thanks to Neighbor’s Mill and its customers for donating $2,000 during a fundraiser in December. Customers were asked to donate $1 to provide four meals through Ozarks Food Harvest’s network of 270 pantries and programs. Neighbor’s Mill matched customer donations dollar-fordollar, providing a total of 8,000 meals!
SRC Community Relations raised $2,407 during their annual holiday fundraiser to provide 9,600 meals. Divisions competed for the title of SRC Hunger Hero, including Ceremax, Global Recovery Corp., Great Game of Business, NewStream Enterprises, SRC Automotive, SRC Electrical, SRC Holdings, SRC Logistics and SRC Remanufacturing. SRC utilized Ozarks Food Harvest's online fundraising platform to make the competition a success.
EXPEDIA SUPPORTS WEEKEND BACKPACK PROGRAM Expedia employees rallied in support of the Weekend Backpack Program and raised $4,215 with their company-wide penny war. Expedia’s support will provide 14 children with weekend meals for a full school year.
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VOLUNTEER & FOOD DRIVE PROGRAMS
FEBRUARY 2018 VOLUNTEERS BUILD WATER CATCHMENT
COLETTA DUDENHOEFFER VOLUNTEERS IN THE OZARKS FOOD HARVEST VOLUNTEER CENTER, AND AT EVENTS LIKE HUNGERTHON, WHERE SHE ANSWERS DONOR PHONE CALLS.
MOTHER INSPIRES CHILDREN TO HELP COMMUNITY Coletta Dudenhoeffer always felt like she wanted to be a part of something bigger. When she found out the news that one in five kids in southwest Missouri are food insecure, she knew she needed to do something. Dudenhoeffer has volunteered with Ozarks Food Harvest since November 2013. “It’s just so addictive, and I like to show my kids that instead of doing nothing all day you should get out and do something for people in need,” she said. In addition to helping in the Volunteer Center, Dudenhoeffer gives her time to many of The Food Bank’s events. “My favorite event of all time to volunteer at is Turkey Trot,” she said. “I have been volunteering there for about four years now and it is just wonderful.” At Ozarks Food Harvest, she feels like she is never wasting her time. With a full-time job and four children to take care of, her days remain very busy.
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“Ozarks Food Harvest gives me the chance to not just be mom for one night and I am still able to do something positive in a really big way.” Dudenhoeffer also cherishes the friendships she has made during her time volunteering. “The camaraderie of like-minded people [with] the same common goal is what keeps me going. I have formed so many friendships here and the volunteer coaches are just so good.” Her experience with The Food Bank has inspired Dudenhoeffer to show her kids the importance of giving their time back to the community. She loves to take her younger kids to the Ozarks Food Harvest Garden and her oldest daughter to Hungerthon to volunteer. “Now my children always want to give back to Ozarks Food Harvest because it has opened their eyes to what is really going on in our community.”
The Ozarks Food Harvest Garden grows fresh produce year-round, in raised beds and high tunnels. Now, thanks to a new water catchment system, veggies can get water even in the dry season. Alexa Poindexter, Full Circle Gardens Coordinator, explained that the system not only provides needed water, it eliminates too much water. One of the two high tunnels experienced flooding because the tunnel sheds water — an inch of rain will produce about about 900 gallons of water — that was not draining away. Instead, it created a soggy mess. The Iowa State University Extension completed a pilot project that captured water from high tunnels and used it for irrigation. The extension office created a toolkit so others could copy the system, and OFH took on the challenge. The system includes guttering that drains water into a 1,250-gallon underground tank. That tank will provide needed water for a 30- by 30-foot garden plot that grew watermelons last year and will produce sweet potatoes this year. Several other major partners have helped make the project possible, including Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Light Up Springfield, University of Missouri Extension, James River Basin Partnership, Watts Radiant, Cummins Pool and Excavating, Westlake Ace Hardware in Springfield, Gold Mechanical, Curtis Claybaker, and Bob & Barb Hutson, as well as many other wonderful volunteers.
WATER CATCHMENT SYSTEMS HELP REDUCE EROSION AND CONSERVE WATER.
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HOST AN ONLINE FUND DRIVE IN 2018 Each winter, monetary donations decline post-holiday. One way to help make sure our neighbor's have enough to eat year-round is to host an online fund drive. While food drives are certainly helpful, fund drives allow The Food Bank to purchase more fresh, healthy food like produce. In addition, just $1 is stretched to provide four meals.
INDIVIDUALS 20+ HOURS Ruby Allen Doug Balogh Jim Blackwell Charley & Trudy Bowen Karla Carroll Tom Carson Emily Comer Olyvia Comer Eddie Currier Linda Currier Eileen Deal Gary Dehaven Kris Dreesen Arlene Eichler Makayla Gamm Wil Hardiman Patti Hudgins Barbara & Bob Hutson David Kasper Harvey Kaylor Caitlyn Kieschnick Kristi Killingsworth Freeman Kleier Don Landon George Lawrence John McClelland Libbey McDaniel
Dave McGee Melvie Mosier Karlene Negus Charlene Nelson Jerry Patton Tom Ryan Jerry Sharp Andrew Slay Harley Snyder Logan Steinhour & friend Isabelle Strack Mike Swearengin Joshua Wade Lona Wait Larry Woolf Robert Wullner Nov. 1- Dec. 31, 2017
One easy way to host a fund drive is to use the Fundraiser function on Facebook. Consider asking your friends to make a donation on behalf of your birthday through Facebook. To host a fund drive for a business, OFH can help you set up a page our FirstGiving, fundraising platform. Learn more about hosting an online fund drive by calling Jennifer at 417-865-3411 or email jsickinger@ozarksfoodharvest.org.
FUND DRIVES ALLOW US TO PURCHASE HEALTHY FOOD LIKE PRODUCE.
FOOD DRIVES 250+ POUNDS
GROUPS 20+ HOURS
McDonald's of the Ozarks Cans for Coffee — 24,683 Springfield-Greene Co. Park Board Turkey Trot — 10,524 Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits — 5,030 OakStar Bank — 3,584 Coldwell Bankers, Vanguard Realtors — 2,452 Wooten Company, LLC — 1,575 Field Elementary School — 1,566 USA Mortgage — 1,547 Jordan Valley Community Health Center — 1,130 TLC Properties — 925 Drury Breech School of Business — 822 Greenwood Laboratory School — 660 Weaver Creek Community — 575 Reinhart Foodservice, LLC — 563 MSU Phi Delta Theta Fraternity — 472 Midwest Technical Institute — 452 Drury Lambda Chi Alpha — 412 O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. — 410 Edward Jones — 398 Woods Supermarket, Bolivar — 367 MSU Department of Music — 358 MSU Meyer Library — 322 FedEx Freight — 303 Paul Mueller Company — 300 Ridewell Suspensions — 280 Zeal Integrated Health — 280 MSU Student Activities Council — 278 Mattress Firm — 265 MoDOT Employees District 8 — 265 Cash Family Orthodontics — 256 Greene County Prosecutors Office — 256 JC Penney — 252 Nov. 17- Jan. 5, 2017
Abacus CPAs, LLC Ameriprise Financial Ameriprise Financial Services / John Rehani Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. Ava H.S. National Honor Society Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Campbell UMC Faith for Life Central Bank of the Ozarks Cox Hemotology Department Datema House DeWitt & Associates Dodson Family Forsyth R-III H.S. FCCLA H&R Block Home Builders Association King's Way UMC Logan-Rogersville H.S. FFA Logan-Rogersville H.S. Click Academy MSU SMAT MSU Base Program MSU Community Involvement & Service Parkview H.S. English Teachers Penney, Murray & Associates Republic H.S. National Honor Society Safelite AutoGlass Springfield Catholic H.S. National Honor Society Springfield Skeptics St. Agnes Elementary fifth grade Studio 417 Salon Wesley UMC Nov. 1- Dec. 31, 2017
JOIN HARVEST CIRCLE, MAKE A LASTING IMPACT IN THE OZARKS Every day, thousands of struggling children, families and seniors across the Ozarks are counting on food provided by Ozarks Food Harvest and its network of 270 member agencies to get by when times are tough. Here at The Food Bank, we count on our supporters to help us provide 16.8 million meals every year to these families. Harvest Circle is a special community of dedicated donors who make monthly gifts that provide a steady source of funds that allow Ozarks Food Harvest to
respond immediately when needs arise.Your monthly commitment helps The Food Bank plan ahead, budget effectively and respond to hunger concerns as they arise throughout the year. When a steady stream of income can be depended on, it makes planning more efficient. Join Harvest Circle by visiting ozarksfoodharvest.org/donate and enroll with a credit card. For all other donation methods, email jsickinger@ozarksfoodharvest.org.
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